star trek 7.1 deep space nine (4 Dvd) Italian Import Review
contiene 12 episodi della settima stagione.
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Sep 16, 2010 17:01:13
star trek 7.1 deep space nine (4 Dvd) Italian Import
contiene 12 episodi della settima stagione.
Star Trek (Collector's Edition Steelbook)
Star Trek (Collector's Edition Steelbook) Review
I really enjoyed this "reboot" of the Star Trek story. Even though I don't consider myself a hard-core Star Trek fan, I was excited by the idea of seeing the early years of the Enterprise crew. Overall, I'd give the film an A- for it's solid story, great acting and special effects. I wasn't too impressed with the interior shots and set of the engine room/lower levels of the Enterprise, as it's painfully obvious they were shot in a present-day industrial facility of some sort. That was the low point for me, and it stood out like a sore thumb in an otherwise well-made flick.
Also, this movie really shines when experienced on a quality big screen HDTV with (at least) a good 5.1 surround sound audio system.
Lastly, thumbs-up to Amazon for fast shipping and a great price for the three disk edition. Collector's edition features steelbook packaging!
The greatest adventure of all time begins with Star Trek, the incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
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You - get down from there! - Surferofromantica - Singapore
By now in the Star Trek world everything's been re-imagined and time-warped and saved and destroyed just so many times that anything can happen. It's interesting how the new director manages to keep on having the brash Kirk pretty much unable to outshine the creepy Spock, but who would have ever thought that Vulcans could be sexy!!! Eric Bana as a Romulan general bent on revenge has a good blend of corn, and we enjoy the entrance of each familiar player as they come (although maybe Uhuru is just a bit too sassy?). I like the idea of "red matter", and the mindless violence was really good fun. Zen and I laughed our heads off at Montgomery Scott's alien sidekick, especially in his last appearance at the end of the movie ("You - get down from there!!!).
Jul 19, 2010 08:51:30
Star Trek (3 Disc Digital Copy Special Edition with Limited Edition U.S.S. Enterprise Packaging) [Blu-ray]
Star Trek (3 Disc Digital Copy Special Edition with Limited Edition U.S.S. Enterprise Packaging) [Blu-ray] Review
By now in the Star Trek world everything's been re-imagined and time-warped and saved and destroyed just so many times that anything can happen. It's interesting how the new director manages to keep on having the brash Kirk pretty much unable to outshine the creepy Spock, but who would have ever thought that Vulcans could be sexy!!! Eric Bana as a Romulan general bent on revenge has a good blend of corn, and we enjoy the entrance of each familiar player as they come (although maybe Uhuru is just a bit too sassy?). I like the idea of "red matter", and the mindless violence was really good fun. Zen and I laughed our heads off at Montgomery Scott's alien sidekick, especially in his last appearance at the end of the movie ("You - get down from there!!!). Includes limited edition collectible packaging that easily assembles to become a Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Blu-ray package!
The greatest adventure of all time begins with Star Trek, the incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
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Excellent response time - Dlanor - Troy, MI USA
The product arrived withing days of my order, even using ordinary shipping. It was in perfect condition.
Jul 16, 2010 01:14:19
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Complete Series
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Complete Series Review
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - Complete Series Feature
- Region 1 NTSC
- Over one hour of brand-new featurettes for each season
- Individually Boxed Sets
- English 5.1 Surround
- English Dolby Surround
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Some episodes are actually cut off... - D. Petek -
I bought this same set several years back for around 0. Whether they're technically "bootlegged" or not...
1. Packaging is atrocious... cardboard boxes with disc sleeves that aren't actually attached to the case inside the box.
2. Clearly heavily compressed due to a move from dual-layer to single-layer discs... pixelation due to compression is often evident.
3. Fourth episode of each disc *always* cuts off early. Now, this is usually right after the episode has ended and the credits have started to roll, but I can tell you episode 12 of season 4 and episode 4 of season 6 literally have about 3 minutes chopped off the end of them.
I can't even recommend this set as a low-cost alternative anymore, since I got it much cheaper than 0 many years ago, and the price of the official set has been slashed from around 0 to 0.
It's a great, great, great show. I've watched it more than 3 times over. Believe it or not, I'm actually buying the official set today off Amazon for 0. I recommend everyone else do the same and spend that extra to get a set with decent packaging, decent quality, and episodes that don't cut off before they're done.
I love China, Chinese people, and Chinese food, but not worthless junk - W. Gardner - U.S.A.
I love China, Chinese people, and Chinese food, but not worthless junk. I actually bought Star Trek Voyager 1-7 from a seller and it turned out to be a Chinese bootleg set. I was so disappointed but the seller disappeared and I was stuck with a, not 2nd rate, but 5th rate quailty set. I should saved my money until Paramount dropped the price.
Jul 12, 2010 23:47:13
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seasons 1-7 [DVD] (2004)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seasons 1-7 [DVD] (2004) Review
Why precisely was DS9 the finest of the STAR TREK series? It had a very good cast, though not clearly the best of the various series in the franchise. Deep Space 9, the space station, was not especially compelling nor were the sets much different than other shows. I think the reason it easily surpassed the other shows in quality was the political premise of the show and the way they stuck with that from beginning to end. While Cardassians, Romulans, and Klingons appeared on other series, only DS9 fully exploited the potential of their struggles with one another. The introduction of the Bajorans, the Jem'Hadar, the Dominion, and the Breen gave the series a complexity that none of the other series even remotely approached. Long story arcs always give series more depth and focus, and this was one of the great limiting factors in the other series, all of which relied on standalone formats without any real overarching story, even VOYAGER, which had a long story arc built into its very structure, that it failed to embrace.
While the main cast was not clearly better than other STAR TREK series, the cast of recurring characters were far and away to best. Garak, Gul Dukat, Rom, Nog, Martak, Keiko, Leeta, Zek the Grand Nagus, Weyoun and Brunt (both played by Jeffrey Combs), Damar, Vic Fontaine, and many others gave the show a marvelous depth and diversity. Oh, and we can't forget Morn, perhaps the most famous TV character never to have uttered a single word of dialogue. The show also does the best job of the various TREKs of fully exploiting the contrasting cultures of the various races. I never really came to like the Klingons in any of the series and DS9 shows it as a rather foolish culture, with hints that they were on the verge of collapse and change. I was slow to like the Ferengi, but I came to enjoy the absurd light they are used to place hyper free market capitalists in our own society (sort of Milton Friedman taken to his logical extreme).
Although DS9 depended upon a mythology developed in the original series and refined in THE NEXT GENERATION, the series actually resembles BABYLON 5 more than those shows. Both were set in space stations built beside wormholes. Both dealt with ongoing political conflicts. Both had commanders with a prophetic destiny. Both began at roughly the same time (DS9 began in January 1993 while BABYLON 5's Season One began in 1994, but the made for TV movie that served as a back door pilot was released in Feberuary of 1993). B5 has a substantial number of passionate fans. I am not among them. I have a number of problems with it, from what I believe is weaknesses in the writing deriving from a lack of a strong writing staff (J. Michael Stracyznski, though unquestionably a very good writer, simply tried to shoulder too much of he writing, despite not being very good with humor and writing somewhat stilted dialogue -- I think the show would have been stronger if he had allowed other writers to take on much of the burden, allowing him to work more on redaction) and rather extreme over acting and rather bizarre character design (I am thinking of Peter Jurasik's ridiculous hair and absurd accent). I understand completely what aspects of B5 some find appealing, but they generally are not bothered as I am by the weaknesses of the show, or at least are able to overlook them. DS9's overall story arc doesn't contain quite the degree of pathos of B5, what with the tragic story of Londo and the complex fate of G'Kar, but I find it overall a more consistently successful series, with fewer of the missteps that marred B5.
I have found in discussions that a surprising number of people who have watched the original series and THE NEXT GENERATION, or even VOYAGER, have not seen DEEP SPACE NINE. Of the four major series in the franchise (I see ENTERPRISE as a rather minor offshoot of the other series), this was the least watched series despite being by far the best. I think part of the explanation for that lies in the more involved story. With the other three series, you could easily miss a dozen or two episodes and completely enjoy an episode, understanding every aspect of the episode. But if you missed a dozen episodes of DS9, you would find things completely changed since the previous episode. This reflects the ongoing evolution of the story.
Although I've seen all of the STAR TREK series at least twice all the way through, this is the one series that I would be most interested in rewatching once again. I have to admit that all in all I'm not a huge STAR TREK fan, but I am very definitely a DS9 fan. In my own ranking of the best SF series of all time, this is the one STAR TREK series that I would rank up with BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (which was headed by DS9 alum Ronald D. Moore), FIREFLY, and FARSCAPE. Any serious fan of TV SF has probably seen this a couple of times already, but I think something that Nana Visitor said in the extras for the Season Seven box set is true, that people might have liked this when they first watched it, but upon rewatching it they are going to be genuinely surprised at how good it is. And the mark of a good series is definitely that it is better the second time through. Includes STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE Seasons 1-7
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Beware of Chinese Bootlegs - Valar1 - Kalifornia, USA
Don't be fooled by the people offering a "brand new factory sealed" DS9 set for ridiculously cheap prices [mine was 100 bucks cheaper than the official Amazon price]- they are bootlegs from China, they are new, do look similar to the US official sets but are defective in quality- you can tell the difference because of the cheapness of the plastic used for the cover, cheap paint used to paint the logo on the discs, and the fact that the discs have bubbles in them. They may or may not freeze when played depending on the quality of your player. You are getting ripped off, they cost 1/5th to 1/10th in China, these guys claim they are from the US, they do claim to have addresses here but they have the sets shipped directly from China to your home [takes about 3 weeks to arrive] and you wind up paying for shoddy stuff. I know this because it happened to me, I wound up filing a claim with Amazon, and thank god those guys are honest and helped me recover my money. So- 5 stars for the show, 5 stars for Amazon, and negative 5 for the bootleg selling scum
I love DS9, but some of the discs was coded right - Keith O. Judon -
I LOVE DEEP SPACE NINE. This show never got credit it deserves or the respect. However with the particular discs I bought, some of them was not coded or programmed right. Instead of getting the selection menu to navigate through each episode, I got the coded information behind it, and while I was able to play all the episodes I was still limited in being able to easily navigate through seasons 5-7.
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Jul 11, 2010 19:35:14
Star Trek Fan Collective - Klingon
Star Trek Fan Collective - Klingon Review
This is a great collection of Klingon based episodes in the Star Trek Universe. We definitely need a 2nd boxset because there is so much more good stories to have in another boxset. This colection includes the deep space nine 4ht season opener "The Way of The Warrior" which is one of my favorites because it introduces another war with the klingon empire which brings Worf back on the screen and therefore enhances the deep space nine show and gives it more depth and style. All of the episodes in the set are a part of different story lines and are well written. If your a big fan of the charicature of the klingons as I am, then after watching this boxset, you will be left craving more episodes on the subject. Thats why I pray that there will be a "Star Trek Klingon Fan Collective Volume 2. Star Trek Fans voted online for their favorite Klingon episodes form the Star Trek television series, which resulted in Star Trek: Fan Collective - Klingon. Get ready for brilliant battles, thrilling adventure and pulse-pounding action when the federation encounters its arch nemesis - the Klingon.
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st fan colective -klingon - Joseph J. Bugden - new england
very nice 2 episodes of st and stdp9 the trouble with tribbles . trial and tribbluations .where the bonus of the dvds.
Jul 10, 2010 18:27:20
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seventh Season
Star Trek Deep Space Nine - The Complete Seventh Season Review
About the only complaint that one could make about Season Seven is that they perhaps had too much story for the number of episodes. There were a few standalone episodes, but the majority of episodes in Season Seven were, in the terminology of THE X-FILE, "mythology." The events of the last few episodes felt a tad compressed, but the show did an adequate job of wrapping up the major story arcs. All in all, I consider it one of the more satisfying wrap ups of a series in the past decade or so. From first to last the show was done the way a show should be done.
The season reached a crescendo with all of the varied plotlines that had dominated the show for the previous six years reaching resolution. With the Dominion pushing deeper and deeper into Federation space and bringing in the Breen as allies (and thereby eventually alienating the Cardassians), they did a great job bringing everything to a clash.
One of the more controversial changes in Season Seven was the replacement of Terry Ferrel (Jadzia Dax) with Nicole de Boer (Ezri Dax). You hear various versions of precisely what happened to end Terry Ferrell's involvement with the series, but there is little debate that it involved money. She had signed a six-year contract and upon discussion of renewal my guess is that when the powers that be tried to low ball her, her agent put out feelers for new gigs, which led to her moving to the show BECKER. I did not want to see Ferrell leave the show, but I loved the changes that Ezri Dax brought to the show. In contrast with the supremely confident and assertive Jadzia, Ezri is more introspective, less self-confident, and far less prepared to be a symbiote host. She quickly became one of my favorite characters on the show. Now, this is what gets me. You hear that Nicole de Boer's joining the show was unpopular, but everyone I have talked to loved her. Obviously there must be Ezri Dax haters, but I think it is OK to love both Daxes. I loved the complicated nature of her relations with people who had previously known her as Jadzia.
One of my favorite additions in Season Seven, although he was introduced briefly in Season Six, was James Darren's Vic Fontaine, a Rat Pack style casino singer. Darren was absolutely brilliant in the role and every episode in which he appears is a highpoint in the season. And in a way the series itself ended in Vic's lounge. Although there were scenes that came after it, the final shot involving all of the cast was in the lounge with Vic singing "Just the Way You Look Tonight," with all of the writers and producers sitting as patrons in the tables at the front. It was just a great way to say goodbye to all of the characters.
This was easily my favorite STAR TREK series, in fact the only one I can honestly say that I love. I regret that they didn't take it to Season Eight. I think that there was plenty of gas left in the tank and that they could easily have managed an additional year. But perhaps it is better to go out on top when you haven't run out of ideas, but that is more of a solace to me rather a real conviction. Luckily, this is the STAR TREK series that for me stands up best to reviewings. And the one STAR TREK series that I believe can be considered among the best TV SF series of all time.
Note: In watching the special features, make sure you are thorough in looking about for hidden features. There are lots and lots and lots of short features, so make sure you hit the right and left and up and down arrows on your remote. Just about every important recurring character on DS9 has a small feature, from Gul Dukat to Nog to Rom to Kai Winn Jeffrey Combs many characters, so if you feel like you have missed someone, keep looking. Episodes: Image in the Sand, Shadows and Symbols, Afterimage, Take Me Out to the Holosuite, Chrysalis, Treachery Faith and the Great River, Once More Unto the Breach, The Siege of AR-558, Covenant, It's Only a Paper Moon, Prodigal Daughter, The Emperor's New Cloak, Field of Fire, Chimera, Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, Penumbra, 'Til Death Do Us Part, Strange Bedfellows, The Changing Face of Evil, When It Rains..., Tacking Into the Wind, Extreme Measures, The Dogs of War, What You Leave Behind Parts I and II.
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The More Things Change The More Things Stay The Same - Andre S. Grindle - Brewer Maine
Yet again Deep Space Nine has dealt with an abrupt change as a key character Jadzia Dax dies at the conclusion of the previous season and again changed the dynamic of a series that was finally getting it's legs on straight. Well the good news is there is a new Dax in Ezri,played by Nicole DeBoer. Of course she has almost nothing in common with Jadzia. She's a very young woman with no training in Trill joining so is extremely insecure. This all comes to play after the mini story arc (a lot broader than the overlong one introducing the previous season by the way) these issues with the newly christened Ezri Dax take hold in an episode called "Afterimage" where Ezri,a councelor tries to assist a hostile Garak with his claustrophobia. Aside from that this always complex and intertwining series became.....even more complex and intertwining. Rather than take on the moody approch of the fifth season of the show to produce conflict this season could be called "the Dominion War season" because episode after episode of this season deals with armed conflict,conspiricies and character difficulties of all sorts. While this season has some excellent shows this season over all lacks a lot of the humor and wacky moments that the other seasons had to temper it's serious nature. Even the two episodes that did focus largely on humor,the baseball send up of "Take Me Out To The Holosuit" and the Vegas style hijinxs of "Badda-Bing-Badda-Bang" all find that light heartedness out of conflict. On the serious side two episodes emerge as highly significant with "Chimera" focusing on Odo encounter another changling who,while not a founder is philosophically closer to their paranoid way of thinking and almost forces Odo into rethinking his burgeoning romance with Kira Nerys. In "Covenant" Kira again confronts Dukat who has gathered many Bajorans into a corruptible suicide cult while she does what she can to avert his evil deeds even as one of misguided mentors has to die in the process. Causualties of war style episodes such as "It's Only A Paper Moon" and "Treachery,Faith & The Great River Aside" the season ends with a complex and long story arc,covering the entirety of the final three DVD's. Basically you can boil it down to this: Dukat disguises himself as a Bajoran to win favor with Kai Winn and turn her against the prophets,the Dominion's alliegence with the Caradassians begins to fall apart,the founders wind up with an illness infecting all of them passed onto them by an unsuspecting Odo after being implanted with the virus at Starfleet medical and it all comes to a head in the finale "What You Leave Behind" where the war ends at a terrible cost,Deep Space Nine's crew begin to move on and in the end.......the loss is Sisko to the wormhole alien/prophets where he's "completed his task" and must learn from them. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and a grown son in Jake seeking solace after the long war and spiritual tract he's endured the last few years. The series got resolved much in the way the 1990's decade itself did: with an event of exasperation (in real life Y2K) that put a new spin on things with no genuine closure but more a sense of perspective.
Deep Space Nine the Final 7th season. - William P. Carter -
I am on my third disk of seven and this baby is packed full of surprise. In one episode it's about a Vulcan Captain who Benjamin Sisco does not like and this Vulcan end up challenging the entire crew of Deep Space nine to of all things to a baseball game. Now there is a lot more to this episode that what I have stated above but remember there is a war going on with the Dominion as well so this provide a nice little break from the war. This is and example of the great writing that the Star Trek series Usually has. I am one happy customer. Peace
Jul 08, 2010 13:24:17